How can I print the list of MAC addresses in Airport Utility?

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How can I print the list of MAC addresses in Airport Utility?

Hi--

In our home, Wi-Fi security is achieved by listing the permitted machines' MAC addresses in our Airports. Making a list of these addresses used to be as simple as making a screen grab of the table in Airport Utility.

Now, with MacOS 10.11.3 and Airport Utility 6.3.6, the table at Network > Timed Access Control... > Wireless Clients no longer lists the MAC addresses. You can view them one at a time, but you can't view them all at once.

Is there any way -- perhaps with Terminal commands, or maybe AppleScript -- to view the Airport's clients' names and MAC addresses in some sort of list?

--Gil

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), Time Capsule Version 7.6.4

Posted on Feb 13, 2016 7:22 PM

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LaPastenague

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Feb 22, 2016 10:04 PM in response to Gil Dawson

Apple closed off all usefulness of its utility.. so now it does the barest min and nothing more.

You can buy third party network tools, inet, fing for your iOS devices, and find all the connected devices.

Or you can buy a router from another supplier and keep the Airport for WAP duties it does OK.

You can also export the configuration file .. look it up in a Text Editor and extract the MAC addresses.. but there is nothing that even comes close to what the average decent routers do nowadays.

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Gil Dawson Author

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Feb 14, 2016 9:23 AM in response to LaPastenague

Thanks, LaPastenague --

You can also export the configuration file ..

Brilliant! I had not noticed that command.

Thanks, also, for the third-party references, in case I need to go further.

--Gil

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